Sand Mountain Recreational Area — Attraction in Fallon

When you first see these dunes you might feel like the area or dune is small but it's not. The mountain is 600' tall and if you go around the mountain to the left or right you'll find a lot smaller dunes and and miles if trails to ride. We were there for two and a half days with our families. In that time I don't think we got to see even half of the area avaliable to ride. I'm looking forward to go back. Each bathroom had a toilet with a deep put under it and 14 rolls of toilet paper. The whole time we were there we did not see any imployees or police. We were not there on a holiday weekend. Your payment is made in an envelope and dropped in a slot. Honor system for the time we were there. People lit off pretty large fireworks at night. Most of the people were respectful of others and their space. There is a paved road that leads to sand mountain. At the end of the road is the camping sites. The ground is sand, rock, gravel. The further away you get from the paved road the more sandy the camping areas got. We stayed closer to the end of the pavement as to not get stuck in our 34' rv. Trucks pulling trailers seemed to have no problems (tires aired down). It was hot during the day and pretty cool to cold at night. Nice breeze. You are definitely in the desert! On the way in there are concrete washout for water in the road. Make sure you slow way down for these! You notice all the marks where people bottom out. They come up fast and we had to slow down to 10 miles an hour or less in our rv pulling at 20' trailer. Other than the bathrooms there are no services at all. In the camping areas there are a few little tracks that are designated for safe riding and blocked off from vehicles by large groupings of rocks. The kids had a blast on these little tracks and we could watch them from our camping spot. Overall it was a great place to take kids, we had a great time and we will...

NOT GREAT FOR RV CAMPING. Great place to explore in the sand and use an off-road vehicle, but I wouldn’t bother to come here for camping. If you have anything camper wise that’s not off-road capable and high clearance drive on by. We have a 30 foot class C motorhome and are pulling a Jeep. We unhooked at the entrance to check out sites. We’ve fulltimed for 5 years so not newbies to tricky parking situations. All of the paved entrances into the sand drop off soooooooooo very severely - a couple feet - that I think you would lose the bottom of your RV trying to even get to a place to park. And we tried to park where we thought was the hardest packed sand and the best paved entrance in - and it still wasn’t great. We ended up just backing out because when we tried to turn, we started sliding in the sand. Didn’t want to risk a tow bill. We parked overnight on the asphalt - which you are not really supposed to do. It doesn’t seem like they are maintaining the entrances to the sand by easing the slope - although they did have a great deal of restroom, facilities, and trash receptacles, which was great. The amount of sand is a pretty unreal site to see up close! Be sure to check out the pony express station ruins near...

In spring I find this place definitely beautiful and peaceful. Usually go up there in April or May and can enjoy the freshness of spring, the blooming flowers, watching animals come out and stroll. Will also sometimes go in October. This is usually a much windier time and colder time. Have often experienced pretty heavy sandstorms which most of us end up retreating our trailers. But once the sandstorms are done. The sand is so nice and smooth. So you got to take the good with the bed sometimes too, right? Either way, it's a beautiful place and I always feel refreshed when we leave. There are so many places to explore. My significant other has been going up there since he was a young child and yet we're still discovering places he's never seen. Of course that's cuz I force him to do something different. He is a creature of habit hahaha. Enjoy your explorations when you get the...